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(No Modell) C. GENTESSE.

TOBOGGAN.

Patented Sept. 14, 1886.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE. I

OAMMILLE GENTESSE, O F MONTREAL, QUEBEC, CANADA.

TOBOGGAN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 348,962. datedSeptember 14, 1886.

Application filed July 1, 1886. Serial No. 206,822. (No model.) Patentedin Canada April 14, 1886, No. 23,802.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GAMMILLE GENTEssE, of the city of Montreal, in theDistrict of Montreal, Province of Quebec, Canada, have invented new anduseful Improvements inToboggans, and I do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

.The object of the present invention is to render toboggans more easy ofbeing steered on slides, and less likely to be caught on the npraisedsides of a slide; also, to make the curl-u p at the front of thetoboggan, commonly called the hood, stronger, and other-improvements,which will be hereinafter set forth in full and claimed.

In the drawings hereunto annexed, similar letters of reference indicatelike parts, and Figure 1 is a side elevation of a toboggan embodying myinvention. Fig. 2 is a plan of the toboggan shown in Fig. 1. Figs. 3 and4 are details of construction.

The toboggans made according to my invention may be either formed out ofone broad thin board or out of a number of narrow thin boards. As shownin Figs. 1 and 2, the toboggan is formed of six narrow boards, a b c def; but any number may be used. In this case the hood is formed byturning up the boards a b to the curl required and bringing the ends ofthe boards a and (1 under them, and again bringing the ends of theboards e andf under the boards 0 and (I, thus contracting the width ofthe hood from about the point 2, (see Figs. 1 and 2,) and thus formingit with a convex front, or, in other words, into a portion'of theperiphery of a spheroid, instead of a hood in the shape of a portion ofa cylinder, as heretofore. The manner of doing this is so clearly shownin Figs. 1 and 2 that no further description of it is required; Thisforms one of the important features of my invention.

' When the toboggan is formed out of one or same as shown in Figs. 1 and2, instead of a simple single curve, as heretofore. The hood formed asabove described is less liable to catch upon the banked-up sides of theslide, and should-the toboggan run up on a portion of the side of theslide it will more quickly return to the lower or center part of theslide than with the hoods heretofore in use.

For persons seated on the toboggan a high rail, t, is an advantage, notonly because it is more easy to hold by, but also because it is bet tercalculated to keep any portion of their clothes from projecting beyondthe toboggan. Such rail would be to some extent an obstruction to theperson at the back that steers; therefore I make the rail 3 of twoheights, 0 and p, the rails being either in one piece or two, asdesired. In either case of making the toboggan out of one or more broadboards or a number of narrow boards I form on the under side of them anydesired number of longitudinal grooves, 70, extending through all thatpart of the bottom side of the toboggan that comes in contact with theslide. These form recesses 70, in which the heads of the nails, screws,or other attachments for fastening to gether the longitudinals and slatsg are situated, thus removing all danger of their scraping the slide.These fasteners are indicated by the dotted lines on in Fig. 4. Thisandthe before-mentioned forming of the rail i of two heights are two otherimportant features of my invention.

\Vhat I claim, and wish to secure by Letters Patent, is as follows:

1. The combination, with a toboggan, of a .hood of double-curvedcontigurationthat is to say, a hood having the configuration of a O,GENTESSE. Witnesses:

CHARLES G. O. SIMrsoN, H. DowAL.

